Thus finally brings to an end Hart’s 12-year tenure with City. It may have come to a somewhat unflattering end, but he no doubt departs an important part of the club’s latter-day tapestry.

Oddly, Burnley team are currently stuck fast amid something of a ‘keeper crisis, with both Tom Heaton and Nick Pope out injured.

So, rather than just playing the dreaded Anders Lindegaard for a few weeks, they’ve gone and handed Hart a no-doubt expensive two-year contract that will ultimately saddle them with three ‘first-choice’ goalkeepers once they all return to the fold.

All a little short-sighted if you ask Pies, but Dyche is no duck egg so we’re prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt.